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OCRFeeder 0.8 is out

After a long time without a new release, OCRFeeder 0.8 is out! The previous version was released in February 2013 from another continent 🙂 After that a lot of thingshappened in my life (very good ones) and I didn’t really have much time to devote to the project.

What’s up?

This version represents one big change: it was ported to GObject Introspection (and thus GTK+ 3)!
This is also related to the delay (because GooCanvas’s GI, a dependency, was not usable in the beginning). Also, after the port started, a few things were deprecated in GTK+ — like Stock items — but this will only be updated on a future release.

I didn’t want many new features in this version as I wanted it to be basically about the port to GI. This way, “eventual” bugs are likely to be about this change and not about unstable new features. I included a small novelty however: support for multi-page TIFF images.
There are, of course, some other small improvements that were developed, as well as a number of bugs that were fixed.

Future

Work, life and other projects make it more and more difficult to find the time to work on OCRFeeder. I would nonetheless be happy to help anyone interested in contributing to it to give the first steps. I believe that OCRFeeder is a useful project and not only for accessibility purposes (although this is a great reason on its own!) so, if you like Python, GTK+, and want to help make this project better, drop me an email.

I need to thank one more time to the awesome GNOME i18n team for keeping OCRFeeder available in many languages and to my dear friend Berto for keeping the Debian package up to date and for the useful bug reports!

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With the new version 0.8 and Ubuntu 14.04, Ocrfeeder Studio (GUI) does not
start and the command line says :
$ ocrfeeder
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ocrfeeder/studio/widgetPresenter.py:164:
Warning: The property GtkSettings:gtk-menu-images is deprecated and shouldn’t
be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version.
menu_bar = ui_manager.get_widget(‘/MenuBar/’)
Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked
Abandon